Convertible shirt.



G. HARPER. CONVERTIBLE SHIRT.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 8. 1915.

.LQMMOOD Patented July 3, 1917.

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G. HARPER. CONVERTIBLE SHIRT, APPLICATION FILED NOV. 8. 1915.

Patentd July 3, 1917 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

GRANT HARPER, OF CLARKSTON, WASHINGTON.

CONVERTIBLE SHIRT.

1,231,6tlt).

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 3, 1917.

Application filed November 8, 1915. Serial No. 60,363.

To all (whom it may concern:

to it known that 1, GRANT HARPER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Clarkston, in the county of 'Asotin and State of WVashington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Convertible Shirts, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to convertible shirts and more particularly to a shirt designed for summer wear, the shirt being capable of being converted into a low neck shirt, into a shirt having the appearance of a neglige shirt provided with an integral turn down collar, or into a shirt in connection with which an ordinary apparel collar may be worn.

It is one aim of the present invention to so construct the shirt that it may be radily converted in the manner above explained without necessity of removing the shirt and without assistance being required by the wearer of the shirt.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the shirt embodying the present invention the same being arranged to simulate an ordinary neglige shirt having an integral turn down collar.

Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the shirt arranged as illustrated in Fig. 1, one side of the bosom of the shirt being turned back or partly opened.

Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the removable neck portion shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 3, illustrating another form of removable neck portion.

In the drawings the numeral 1 indicates in general the body portion of the shirt embodying the present invention, the same being provided with the ordinary sleeves 2 and being open at the front and provided with buttons and button holes as indicated at 3 whereby the front may be closed in the usual manner. The shirt is provided with a relatively low neck opening a which as a consequence of its being cut low is considerably larger in diameter than would be the ordinary neck band or opening if the shirt were of the ordinary form or construction. The overlapping portions of the bosom of the shirt at the front of the neck opening are provided with button holes, the

button hole which is formed in that portion of the shirt which carries the buttons, be-

ing indicated by the numeral 5, and the but ton holein the other overlapping portion of the shirt or, in other words, in that portion which is provided with button holes. to receive the buttons upon the first mentioned portion, being indicated by the numeral 6. The purpose of the button holes 5 and 6 will be presently explained and at this point it will be understood that the material of the shirt surrounding the neck opening 4 may be finished in any desired manner. Also, for a purpose to be presently explained, the shirt is provided interiorly at its neck opening and at the inner end of each shoulder seam, with one member 7, as for example the socket member of a snap fastening and is provided interiorly at the said neck opening, at the rear of the said opening, with one tening.

(hen comfort is more to be desired than a neator dressy appearance, the shirt may be worn without the interchangeable neck pieces to .be hereinafter described, an ordinary collar button 9 being fitted through the button holes 5 and 6 after the front of the shirt has been closed by the buttons 3 and their associated button holes. The shirt when thus worn will have, as before stated, a low neck opening and inasmuch as the elements 7 and 8 of the snap fastenings above referred to, are located within the said shirt, their presence will not be noticeable.

One of the neck members employed in connection with the shirt is illustrated in Fig. 3 of the drawings and this member is preferably formed from the same material as the body of the shirt and so constructed that the patterns thereon and on thebody of the shirt will matcl. The said neck member comprises bosom portions 10, a back portion 11, and shoulder portions 12 which connect the bosom and back portions. The edge portions of the bosom 10 are arranged to overlap in the same manner as in the ordinary neglige shirt and are formed below the neck opening with button holes 18. A neck band 14 extends around the neck opening and is secured to the upper edges of the bosom, shoulder and back portions and is provided at its ends with button holes 15. The band 14 also constitutes the neck band or inner ply of a turn down collar 16. As a whole the neck member shown in Fig. 3 simulates in appearance the member 8 of a snap fasupper portion of an ordinary neglige shirt having an integral turn down collar. The numeral 17 indicates the stud members of the snap fastenings which include the socket members 7 and the numeral 18 indicates the stud member of the snap fastening which includes the socket member 8, the elements 17 being secured to the shoulder portions 12 of the neck member and the element 18 being secured to the back portion 11 at the middle thereof and immediately below the neck opening.

WVhen it is desired to convert the shirt into a neglige shirt having a turn down collar, the neck member shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings is inserted. within the neck opening 4 and the buttons 3 are inserted through the associated button holes and the button 9 is fitted through the button holes 13 and finally through the button holes 5 and 6. The stud members 17 and 18 are then snapped into engagement with their respective socket members 7 and 8 and any suitable apparel tie, indicated at 19, is applied to the collar 16- in the usual manner. The neck member shown in Fig. & of the drawings comprises bosom portions 20, a back portion 21 and shoulder portions 22, these portions corresponding to the portions 10, Hand 12, respectively, of the neck member shown in Fig. 3 and above described.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents The neck member shown in Fig. 4 is provided with a neck band 23 having at its ends button holes 24: and the overlapping edge portions of the bosom 20 are provided with button holes 25 corresponding to the button holes 13 previously referred to. Stud members 26 and 27 corresponding to the members 17 and 18 respectively, are provided upon the neck member shown in Fig. 1 and this neck member is designed to be arranged within the neck opening of the body of the shirt in the same manner as previously explained. The neck band 23, of course, corresponds to the neck band of an ordinary shirt and to it may be applied a standing or turn down detachable collar.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

In an article of wearing apparel of the class described, a body member having a relatively low neck opening and having bosom portions provided with coacting buttons and buttonholes, the said bosom por- V tions at their upper corners being provided each with a buttonhole, and a neck member removably fitted within the said neck opening of the body member and provided with a neck 1. p

In testimony whereof, I aifiX my signature. 7

GRANT HARPER 7 [1 s.]

each, by addressing the flommissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 1,231,600, granted July 3,

1917, upon the application of Grant Harper, of Clarkston, Washington, for an improvement in Convertible Shirts, an error appears in the printed specification requiring correction as follows: Page 2, line 59, claim, strike out the numeral 1 and insert the Words band and below the neck band with a buttonhole for registration with the buttonholes at the said upper corners of the bosom portions of the body memher; and that the said Letters Patent should be read With this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the case inthe Patent Oflice.

Signed and sealed this Sthday of October, A. D., 1918.

[SEAL] R. F. WHITEHEAD Acting Commissioner of Patents. Cl. 2-89. I 

